The ability for cancer cells to develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs – known as multi-drug…
Browsing: Disease
Disease refers to a condition that disrupts the normal functioning of the body or mind, often characterized by specific signs and symptoms. It can result from infections, genetic mutations, environmental exposures, lifestyle factors, or a combination of these. Diseases range from acute, short-term illnesses to chronic, long-term conditions, and can affect individuals or spread across populations. Scientific research into the causes, mechanisms, treatments, and prevention of disease plays a vital role in improving public health, advancing medicine, and responding to emerging health threats. This page features the latest discoveries and breakthroughs in understanding, diagnosing, and managing diseases of all kinds.
Like all organisms, plants are associated with bacterial communities in which helpful and harmful bacteria…
About 1 in 750 babies born in the United States has some kind of craniofacial…
Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Cambridge identified the role of…
Researchers have identified an enzyme that is absent in healthy colon tissue but abundant in…
Researchers have developed a new way to capture the detailed biomechanical properties of heart tissue.…
Six novel chromosomal regions identified by scientists leading a large, prospective study of children at…
MIT biologists have designed a new peptide that can disrupt a key protein that many…
Parkinson’s disease is currently the second most widespread neurogenerative pathology. It is a motor disorder…
Mount Sinai Researchers have just discovered that patients in the Ashkenazi Jewish population with Crohn’s…
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a capsule that can deliver…
A team of Yale researchers tested a new chemical compound that suppresses HIV, protects immune…
Antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas infections in cystic fibrosis patients show predictable sensitivities to other classes of antibiotics.…
A study from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators points toward a potential…
Researchers of the Molecular Signaling in Cancer group of the Oncobell program (Bellvitge Biomedical Research…
A pioneering study has found that patients with Parkinson’s disease have more errors in the…
In search of new strategies against life-threatening tuberculosis infections, a team from the Technical University…
FINDINGS Gene expression in specific cells and in specific regions can provide a more precise,…